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- Fast food frolics
- Students will research nutritional guides from local fast food restaurants. Based on this research, students will compare menus for nutritional values and create healthy and unhealthy meal advertisement posters.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Healthful Living)
- By Lisa Pastor.
- Spreadsheets for dinner
- Students will identify spreadsheet terms, create a spreadsheet about nutritional content of foods, and add the columns of the spreadsheet.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Healthful Living)
- By Laurie Myers.
- Nutritional value unit integrated with Microsoft Works
- This unit is an example of how to integrate technology into the curriculum to alleviate teaching it in isolation. Students will use Microsoft Works to compare and analyze nutritional values from nonperishable food items.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Computer/Technology Skills and Mathematics)
- By Gretchen Parrish.
- We read every day!
- Students will, through observation outside of the classroom, gather and bring to class five items that exhibit different sources of information comprised of more complex vocabulary.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 English Language Arts and Information Skills)
- Nutrition and the media: Cereal box consumerism
- This lesson will offer your students the opportunity to explore nutrition and how the media impacts our consumer decisions. Students will design a cereal box and read about how the use of color, slogans, and prizes impacts buyers. This lesson plan is easily adapted for exceptional children and can be expanded and/or adapted to suit your students' needs.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts, Healthful Living, and Mathematics)
- By Gloria Simmons.
- Working with matrices
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 2.8
- In this lesson, students use matrices to organize sets of data.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9 Mathematics)
- By Debbie Brooks, Peggy Dickey, and Jan Sullivan.
- PIZZA = "Fractions: Any Way You Slice It!"
- During this lesson, students will explore and investigate the relationships among fractions. Students will use paper pizzas divided into fractional parts to compare equivalent fractions. They will see part-whole fractions as fair shares and begin to understand that the parts must be equal.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Computer/Technology Skills and Mathematics)
- By Alta Allen.
- Salt trading in Asia
- In this interdisciplinary lesson, students explore the mineral salt from a variety of perspectives — scientific, geographic, and cultural. The lesson incorporates images of salt production in Nepal and Vietnam, and may be used with grade 4 or grade 7.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 and 7 Science and Social Studies)
- By Edie McDowell.
Resources on the web
- Center for Science in the Public Interest
- Focuses on improving the safety and nutritional quality of our food supply with a variety of articles and information that look at topics like alcohol, biotechnology, and antibiotic resistance. (Learn more)
- Format: website/general
- Provided by: Center for Science in the Public Interest
- Plastic Fork Diaries
- Follow six middle school students as they experience first-hand the relationship between food and their changing bodies, cultural differences, the vanishing family meal, nutrition, and athletic performance. Interactives allow you to snoop through their lockers... (Learn more)
- Format: website/activity
- Provided by: Corporation for Public Broadcasting and Maryland Public Television
